To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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