The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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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 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.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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