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.
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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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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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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