Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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