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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your 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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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