One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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