If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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