Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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?
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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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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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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