The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBeauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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