It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
W. Somerset Maugham...the sea offers the only broad horizon, and the immense he saw now gave him a peculiar, an indescribable thrill. He felt suddenly elated. Though he did not know it, it was the first time that he had experienced, quite undeluted with foreign emotions, the sense of beauty.
W. Somerset MaughamI wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
W. Somerset MaughamHis death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything.
W. Somerset MaughamThe rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
W. Somerset MaughamThe bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.
W. Somerset MaughamThere is nothing so difficult as to persuade men that they are ignorant. Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it charlatanry to undertake a post without knowledge and without capacity. Fortunately that is not the opinion of the majority, or the government of this enlightened country could not proceed.
W. Somerset MaughamMarriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.
W. Somerset MaughamI'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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