A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBeauty 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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