The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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