Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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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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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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