Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMHow 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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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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