To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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