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 MAUGHAMLove is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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When 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.
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