To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAs the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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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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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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