There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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