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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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When 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.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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