Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThey call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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 these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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