A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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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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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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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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.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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