Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife isn’t long enough for love and art.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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