The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTradition is a guide and not a jailer.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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