Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Oh, 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.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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