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Soul Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.
- Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
- Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.
- I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,…
- Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
- The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down…
- Impropriety is the soul of wit.
- No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
- Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless…
- This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.…
- I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be…
- When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less…
- Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and…
- I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man,…
- One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
- I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown…
- The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased…
- I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
More Soul Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt