As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMArt is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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