The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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 complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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