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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
Army Scout
Literary Critic
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Physician Writer
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France
W. Somerset Maugham
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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
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The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
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And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.
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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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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
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It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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