There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMHe is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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