The Nature of men and women -their essential nature- is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
W. Somerset MaughamEach one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.
W. Somerset MaughamThe Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: humor authors americans british
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
W. Somerset MaughamSome of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: love religion drugs whiskey nowhere
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: love
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
W. Somerset MaughamThe 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.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: consciousness mind articifical-intelligence duality hard-ai mind-body-problem
You cannot write unless you write much.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: advice writing writers
It does the heart good to look at you.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: inspirational
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