You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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I 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.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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