The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDeath doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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