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.
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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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