Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
W. Somerset MaughamI've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?
W. Somerset MaughamTags: happiness dreams human essential misery common bondage maugham
...the painted veil which those who live call life
W. Somerset MaughamThen he saw that the normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everyone had some defect, of body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick-house, and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body and warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or a craving for liquor. At this moment he could feel a holy compassion for them all. They were the helpless instruments of blind chance. He could pardon Griffiths for his treachery and Mildred for the pain she had caused him. They could not help themselves. The only reasonable thing was to accept the good of men and be patient with their faults. The words of the dying God crossed his memory:
Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
..."he was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit, unconsciously he thanked god he no longer believed in him.
W. Somerset MaughamYou know, my dear child, that one cannot find peace in work or in pleausre, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: painted-veil
Her happiness, sometimes almost more than she could bear, renewed her beauty. Just before she married, beginning to lose her first freshness, she had looked tired and drawn. The uncharitable said that she was going off. But there is all the difference between a girl of twenty-five and a married woman of that age.
W. Somerset MaughamPassion doesn’t count the cost. Pascal said that the heart has its reasons that reason takes no account of. If he meant what I think, he meant that when passion seizes the heart it invents reasons that seem not only plausible but conclusive to prove that the world is well lost for love. It convinces you that honour is well sacrificed and that shame is a cheap price to pay. Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O’Shea. And if it doesn’t destroy it dies. It may be then that one is faced with the desolation of knowing that one has wasted the years of one’s life, that one’s brought disgrace upon oneself, endured the frightful pang of jealousy, swallowed every bitter mortification, that one’s expended all one’s tenderness, poured out all the riches of one’s soul on a poor drab, a fool, a peg on which one hung one’s dreams, who wasn’t worth a stick of chewing gum.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: love
Илюзия е, че младостта е щастлива, илюзия на онези, които са я загубили; младите страдат от безброй лъжливи представи, които са им внушавани, и всеки път, щом се докоснат до истината, тя ги наранява. Като че са жертви на заговор, защото книгите, които им се дават да четат - минали през подбор и затова пълни с идеализирани представи - както и нещата, които чуват от по-възрастните - хора, гледащи назад към миналото през розовата мъгла на забравата, ги подготвят за един недействителен живот. Те трябва сами да открият, че всичко прочетено и чуто е лъжа, лъжа и само лъжа, и всяко откритие е още един гвоздей, забит в тялото им, разпънато на кръста на живота. Но странно - всеки преживява това горчиво разочарование; а после на свой ред допринася за изграждането на илюзия, несъзнателно тласкан от непреодолима вътрешна сила.
W. Somerset Maugham[...] she was one of those hostesses who look upon it as a mark of hospitality to make their guests eat however unwilling they may be.
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