The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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