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 MAUGHAMHe had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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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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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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