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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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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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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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