A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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