W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: 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 passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.

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  Fashion, Beach, Lying

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com

• One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

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  Soul, World, Finding Peace

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.119, Random House

• 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 the hill.

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  Running, Art, Water

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• Impropriety is the soul of wit.

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  Inspirational, Life, Advice

  Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 4

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

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  Art, Travel, Adventure

  "Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard" by W. Somerset Maugham, (p. 310), 1930.

• 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 sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

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  Thinking, Sea, Ducks

• 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 will satisfy her.

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  Women, Love You, Soul

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.109, Courier Corporation

• 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 to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

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  Heart, Thinking, Love Is

  W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “The Trembling of a Leaf: Stories of the South Sea Islands”, p.85, Xist Publishing

• Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

  W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.53, Courier Corporation

• The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

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  Artist, Soul, Produce

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• 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, and some starved impulse left him to lay bare his soul. I have in this way learned more about men in a night than I could if I had known them for 10 years. If you are interested in human nature, it is one of the greatest pleasures of travel.

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  Life, Night, Men

• 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. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.

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  Morning, Pain, Heart

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1854, eBookIt.com

• 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 able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

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  Regret, Struggle, Hands

• 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 still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

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  Dog, Love You, Soul

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.153, Courier Corporation

• 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, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

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  Wise, Men, Two

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 2 (1919)

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

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  Christian, Soul, Atheism

  "A Writer's Notebook". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1949.

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

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  Regret, Hands, Soul

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

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  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Soul

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

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  Men, Garden, Eden

  W. Somerset Maugham (2002). “The Trembling of a Leaf”, p.84, Dixon Price Pub

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