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Quotes by W Somerset Maugham
- 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.
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
- The crown of literature is poetry.
- The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
- The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
- There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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