To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMShe loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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 a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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