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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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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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