You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAs lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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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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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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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.
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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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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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I’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.
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