She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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