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 MAUGHAMThe essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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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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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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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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