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W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris, France in 1874.
* He was orphaned at the age of 10 and raised by his uncle.
* He studied medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital in London.
* He published his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, in 1897.
* He became a successful playwright in the early 1900s.
* He wrote several novels, including Of Human Bondage and The Razor's Edge.
* He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1954.
* He died in Nice, France in 1965.
* He is considered one of the most important English writers of the 20th century.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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How 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.

W. Somerset Maugham

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

W. Somerset Maugham

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

W. Somerset Maugham

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

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If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

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