You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife isn’t long enough for love and art.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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