I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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