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William Somerset Maugham: Citations en anglais
"The judgement seat", p. 314
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 39
"1941", p. 336
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.”
Red http://books.google.com/books?id=6ZZgZw5yX8QC&q="a+soul+is+a+troublesome+possession+and+when+man+developed+it+he+lost+the+Garden+of+Eden"&pg=PA413#v=onepage (1921)
"1896", p. 28
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Summing Up
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”
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The Moon and Sixpence
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 41, p. 140
“Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it.”
NY Times Magazine (October 18, 1958)
“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 71
“To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.”
Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan
“Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.”
"1941"
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Moon and Sixpence
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 79
Arnold, in The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts (1921), p. 58-59
Plays
“…when you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right…”
Source: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 166
“It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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Ten Novels and Their Authors
Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954)
“Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1943)
“Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 45
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Moon and Sixpence
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 33, p. 119
Leo Tolstoy and War and Peace
Great Novelists and Their Novels
"The lion's skin", p. 283
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
