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.
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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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