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 secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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