If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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