What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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