Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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