The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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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 learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The 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.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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