Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMShe loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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