The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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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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