Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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