The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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 mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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