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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
Novelist
Physician Writer
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Paris
France
W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
Never
Characters
Character
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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
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The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
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A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
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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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It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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. ~Waddington
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Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.
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