I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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