Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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