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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhat do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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 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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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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