If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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