The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLove is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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