Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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