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?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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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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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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