The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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