Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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