I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset MaughamThings were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset MaughamEvery production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: imagination art inspiration soul artists art-and-life
Desire is sad.
W. Somerset MaughamHe did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of reality. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life. The strange thing is that each one who has gone through that bitter disillusionment adds to it in his turn, unconsciously, by the power within him which is stronger than himself.
W. Somerset Maughamand he loved her suddenly because she loved him.
W. Somerset MaughamInsensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading:
When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows.
(Philip always pretended that he was not lame.)
She restored his belief in himself and put healing ointments, as it were, on all the bruises of his soul.
‘Why d’you read then?’ ‘Partly for pleasure, because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if I don’t smoke, and partly to know myself. When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for ME, and it becomes part of me; I’ve got out of the book all that’s any use to me, and I can’t get anything more if I read it a dozen times. You see, it seems to me, one’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there are certain things that have a peculiar significance for one, and they open a petal; and the petals open one by one; and at last the flower is there.’
‘It would have interfered with my work,’ he told Philip. ‘What work?’ asked Philip brutally. ‘My inner life,’ he answered.
buffeted by the philistines.
the love of poetry was dead in England.(its dead everywhere write poem on that idea)
My motto is, leave me alone
He was thankful not to have to believe in God, for then such a condition of things would be intolerable; one could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless.
Then he saw that the normal was the rarest thing in the world.
(the whole world was like a sick-house, and there was no rhyme or reason in it)
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: sex gay gay-rights sexual-life
No pain in love is so hard to bear as that which comes from the impossibility of doing any service from the well-beloved, and no service is so repulsive that love cannot make it delightful and easy.
W. Somerset MaughamAnd then he felt the misery of his life.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: depressing
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