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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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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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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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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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