The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset MaughamRead
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
Interpretation
You can love someone deeply without wanting a lifelong commitment.
This quote by W. Somerset Maugham highlights the complexity of love, suggesting that deep emotional connections do not necessarily imply a desire for a permanent relationship or shared future. It emphasizes the idea that love can be experienced in various forms, some transient and others enduring, illustrating the distinctions between romantic affection and the commitment of a lifelong partnership.
In practice
During a wedding toast, one might reflect on the complexities of love and relationships.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.
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.
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.
He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.
You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.
Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.
O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To sacrifice myself in silence, to wait for Heaven in peace. Keeping myself open to the rays of the Divine Host, In this furnace of love, I shall be consumed, And like a seraphim, Lord, I shall love You.
sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.
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