There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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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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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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