Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Impropriety is the soul of 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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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