The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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