The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBeauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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I’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.
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