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W. Somerset Maugham English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
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It is cruel to discover one΄s mediocrity only when it is too late.

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 the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.



Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

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