The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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