It's a long, arduous road he's starting to travel, but it may be that at the end of it he'll find what's he's seeking.
W. Somerset MaughamI did not hesitate to put the question that came to the tip of my tongue. After all, if you want to know something the best way is to ask.
W. Somerset MaughamYou see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.
W. Somerset MaughamI have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows himself? Heaven knows. I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself.
W. Somerset MaughamMots clés advice choices-and-consequences
I do not know what infinite yearning possesses you, so that you are driven to a perilous, lonely search for some goal where you expect to find a final release from the spirit that torments you. I see you as the eternal pilgrim to some shrine that perhaps does not exist. I do not know to what inscrutable Nirvana you aim. Do you know yourself? Perhaps it is Truth and Freedom that you seek, and for a moment you thought that you might find release in Love. I think your tired soul sought rest in a woman’s arms, and when you found no rest there you hated her. You had no pity for her, because you have no pity for yourself. And you killed her out of fear, because you trembled still at the danger you had barely escaped.
W. Somerset MaughamUnless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.
W. Somerset MaughamI only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.
W. Somerset Maugham...he felt a queer little pang of bitterness because reality seemed so different from the ideal
W. Somerset MaughamIt is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.
W. Somerset MaughamMots clés knowledge place nationality
We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.
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