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 MAUGHAMYou’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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