We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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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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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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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