The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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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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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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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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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.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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