Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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