What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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We 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.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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