The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMArt is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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