Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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