There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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