An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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