Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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