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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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