Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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