The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBeauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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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.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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