Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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You 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.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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