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«Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
fashions, torment
«Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquiring, deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, effect, excess, exhilarate, exhilarated, exhilarating, moderation, occasion, on occasion, prevents
«Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Words,
Writing
| Keywords:
appearance, Considering, look at, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, sound, weight, weighted, written word
«Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
good nature, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, The Pilgrimage
«Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Advice,
Death and dying,
Fear
| Keywords:
affair, dreariest, dreary, dull, dying
«Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
continuation, dirty, dirty trick, played, species, trick
«Tolerance is another word for indifference.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Tolerance,
Writing
| Keywords:
indifference, tolerance
«What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Elderly
| Keywords:
burden, faculties, failing
«Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.»
«To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquire, almost all, construct, miseries, refuge
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