The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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