The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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