We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Somerset MaughamIn the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
Somerset MaughamBeauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
Somerset MaughamThe Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
Somerset MaughamThe rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
Somerset MaughamIt is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise…
Somerset MaughamEvery production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Somerset MaughamIf forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
Somerset MaughamAnd then he felt the misery of his life.
Somerset MaughamAt a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Somerset MaughamHow can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
Somerset Maugham