One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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 wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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