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.
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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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