It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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