Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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