Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDon’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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