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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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