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 MAUGHAMThe future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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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