If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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