But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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