The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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