Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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 tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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