He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMArt is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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