The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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