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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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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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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 ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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