Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAll 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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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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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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