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The Moon and Sixpence quotes

W. Somerset Maugham

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“It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then...” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet...” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel…” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“'Why do nice women marry dull men?' 'Because intelligent men won't marry nice women.'” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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