“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Summing Up
Origine: The Summing Up (1938), p. 310
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W. Somerset Maugham libro The Summing Up
Origine: The Summing Up (1938), p. 285
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 41, p. 142
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 58, p. 213
“The tragedy of love is indifference.”
The Trembling of a Leaf, ch. 4
W. Somerset Maugham libro Schiavo d'amore
Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 42
“A god that can be understood is not a god.”
W. Somerset Maugham libro Il filo del rasoio
The Razor's Edge (1943), p. 283
“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.”
Origine: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 140.<!-- Doubleday Doran & Co. -->
Contesto: 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.
W. Somerset Maugham libro Il filo del rasoio
The Razor's Edge (1943)
Contesto: Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
“What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.”
"1901", p. 67
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
W. Somerset Maugham libro Schiavo d'amore
Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 51
Contesto: You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham libro Il filo del rasoio
The Razor's Edge (1943)
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Summing Up
Origine: The Summing Up (1938), p. 306
"The judgement seat", p. 316
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love…”
W. Somerset Maugham libro Il filo del rasoio
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 44, p. 157
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 1, p. 8
“But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
W. Somerset Maugham libro Schiavo d'amore
Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 70
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Summing Up
Origine: The Summing Up (1938), p. 182