The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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 prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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