The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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