I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife isn’t long enough for love and art.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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