A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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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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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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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