More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
  2. I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.
  3. We are not the same persons this year as last ; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed per…
  4. He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward …
  5. It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a st…
  6. 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.
  7. Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
  8. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

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