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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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