You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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