You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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 is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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