More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of th…
  2. Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of li…
  3. You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
  4. I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
  5. My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and h…
  6. Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
  7. [Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
  8. People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

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