The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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