Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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 world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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