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 MAUGHAM
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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?
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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