It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOf all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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