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W Somerset Maugham Inspirational Quotes (458)

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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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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Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments it is a whole-time job.
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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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The great man is too often all of a piece it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
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She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.
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She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.
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Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
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I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
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When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.
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She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
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And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.
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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty the only thing that counts is the love of duty when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
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