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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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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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