But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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