To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLove is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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