“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Source: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 140.
Context: 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.

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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

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