Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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