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W. Somerset Maugham — Portrait after a picture by Carl Van Vechten (1880 - 1964) (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

W. Somerset Maugham

English playwright and author

1874–1965

35 quotes, most often on Love, Money and Quotations.

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.
The Razor’s Edge (1943)
- Change
- Happiness
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
Of Human Bondage (1915), Chapter XXIXIn context
- Happiness
- Youth

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