W. Somerset Maugham - Day Quotes

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He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.

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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.

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To a friend who had said that he hated English food:
All you have to do is eat breakfast three times a day.

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It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.

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I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked … it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

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…the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

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Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

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