If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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