To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLove is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life 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.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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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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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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 only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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