Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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