You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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