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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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