What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTolerance is only another name for indifference.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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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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