It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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