The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Suddenly he realised that he had lost also that burden of responsibility which made every action of his life a matter of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He put off the faith of his childhood quite simply, like a cloak that he no longer needed. At first life seemed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He seemed to see his fellow creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He was occupied with the forming of a pattern out of the manifold chaos of life, and the materials with which he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He was thankful not to have to believe in God, for then such a condition of things would be intolerable; one could… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It may be that I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The Work of Art. When I watch the audience at a concert or the crowd in the picture gallery I ask myself… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.' — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
