There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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