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We do not write as we want, but as we can.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.
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The great man is too often all of a piece it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.
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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection but perhaps she does not always remember him.
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Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
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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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Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.
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When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice it wasn't lasciviousness it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
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I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
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I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.
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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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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
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