What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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