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 MAUGHAMThe fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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