Soul Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

20 Soul quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

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Maugham’s twenty observations on the soul cut through pretense with his trademark observational sharpness, making each quote feel like a quiet conversation with a seasoned observer.

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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

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Impropriety is the soul of wit.

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I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

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“It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.”

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Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

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A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

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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…

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“You know, my dear child, that one cannot find peace in work or in pleausre, in the world or in a convent,…

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When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination,…

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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water…

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I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was…

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I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I…

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Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your…

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This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he…

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I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through…

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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other…

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“[The goal is] "liberation from the bondage of rebirth. According to the Vedantists the self, which they call the atman and we…

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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach…

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

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“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.”

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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

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“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…

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I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness…

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If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

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“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?”

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“My dear, you used to be quite a dish; now you're quite a tureen.”

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“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves”

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