The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without 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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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