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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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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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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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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