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.
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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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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’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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