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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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