Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMHow 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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