To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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