A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTo 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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