The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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