If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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