As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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