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?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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