The first time he talked in that way he said something that I've never forgotten, because it horrified me; he said that the world isn't a creation, for out of nothing nothing comes, but a manifestation of the eternal nature; well, that was all right, but then he added that evil is as direct a manifestation of the divine as good. They were strange words to hear in that sordid, noisy café, to the accompaniment of dance tunes on the mechanical piano.
W. Somerset MaughamI wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter.
W. Somerset MaughamImpropriety is the soul of wit.
W. Somerset MaughamHow happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning, if the dregs of a cup of wine were as sweet as the first sip.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: life
Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: writers-on-writing
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed. But there is in my nature a strain of asceticism, and I have subjected my flesh each week to a more severe mortification. I have never failed to read the Literary Supplement of The Times.
W. Somerset MaughamHe had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward to an ecstatic happiness; but this was not happiness; it was a hunger of the soul, it was a painful yearning, it was a bitter anguish, he had never known before.
W. Somerset MaughamМалко здрав разум, малко търпимост, малко чувство за хумор и ти ще откриеш, че се чувстваш много удобно на тази планета.
W. Somerset Maugham...мъчително е да погледнеш една жена, която си обичал с цялото си сърце дотолкова, че си искал винаги да я гледаш, и изведнъж да разбереш, че ти е все едно, ако не я видиш повече. Трагедията на любовта е в безразличието.
W. Somerset MaughamThe world consists of me and my thoughts and my feelings; and everything else is mere fancy. Life is a dream in which I create the objects that come before me. Everything knowable, every object of experience, is an idea in my mind, and without my mind it does not exist. Dream and reality are one. Life is a connected and consisted dream, and when I cease to dream, the world, with its beauty, its pain and sorrow, its unimaginable variety, will cease to be. take life as it is. just the way it is.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: life
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