There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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 wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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