You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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