Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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