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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMFor my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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