Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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