Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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