There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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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 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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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