One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOf all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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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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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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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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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