We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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