I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife isn’t long enough for love and art.
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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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