It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThey call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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