It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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 is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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