The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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 isn’t long enough for love and art.
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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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