Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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 Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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