As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife isn’t long enough for love and art.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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