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You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
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I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.
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The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
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You see, money to you means freedom to me it means bondage.
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I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.
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What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
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No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
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Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. 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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. Somerset Maugham
