Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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