You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMEach one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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