I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOne can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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