Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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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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