Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMPeople 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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