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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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