It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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