There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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