Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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