The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBut it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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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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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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