The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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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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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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.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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