To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLove is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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