One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOf all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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