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- When you reach a certain age, live your life poetically, and make life . . .
Maugham once said: "A person can observe fallen leaves, shy flowers, and appreciate everything from the subtleties, and life cannot do anything to him "
- The Merry-Go-Round of Life: Finding Meaning in the Chaos
He sees through the darkness and flaws in human nature, but he believes in beauty “If a person can observe fallen leaves and shy flowers, and appreciate everything from the smallest details, life can’t do anything to him ”
- TOP 25 QUOTES BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (of 503) | A-Z Quotes
We must see the beauty of quietness We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people
- W. Somerset Maugham - Wikiquote
I hate people who play bridge as though they were at a funeral and knew their feet were getting wet Said in 1921 Quoted in The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990), p 75; Observing these people I am no longer surprised that there is such a scarcity of domestic servants back home
- The Trembling of a Leaf - W. Somerset Maugham - My Maugham Collection
It has a pretty Asian woman on a beach with flowers It also has an introduction critique of Maugham by someone I once had a true first of this (the Doran one); even when I had it, I was still planning on buying this paperback edition
- William Somerset Maugham (quotes) - Wisdom Trove
We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too; When married people don’t get on they can separate, but if they’re not married it’s impossible It’s a tie that only death can sever
- William Somerset Maugham Famous Quotes Sayings
Life seemed an inextricable confusion Men hurried hither and thither, urged by forces they knew not; and the purpose of it all escaped them; they seemed to hurry just for hurrying's sake — William Somerset Maugham
- “I have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the . . .
Maugham displays an intelligence so willing to observe the worst that I cannot imagine liking him Or rather I can’t imagine him liking me And, yes, I do often create imaginary friendships with writers, friendships in which I thank them for their work, flatter them up a bit, ask for advice or clarification
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