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Arzt, Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, "Der Menschen Hörigkeit", "Die Villa", "Menschen in der Südsee", "Damals und Heute", "Die halbe Wahrheit", "Der Magier" (England, 1874 - 1965).

William Somerset Maugham · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

William Somerset Maugham wäre heute 150 Jahre, 3 Monate, 0 Tage oder 54.877 Tage alt.

Geboren am 25.01.1874 in London
Gestorben am 16.12.1965 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat/Nizza
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann

• Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

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

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• Certainly Kipling has gifts; the fairy godmothers were all tipsy at his christening: What will be do with them?

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• Commonsense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

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• Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould charakter. The end of culture is right living.

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• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.

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• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

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• From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

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• Happiness is never exactly as one imagined it to be.

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• Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

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• I am never so happy as when a new thought occurs to me and a new horizon gradually discovers itself before my eyes. When a fresh idea dawns upon me, I feel lifted up, apart from the world of men, into a strange atmosphere of the spirit. It is a new freedom. I feel aloof from the world, and for a moment I am independent of all my surroundings.

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• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

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• If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

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• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

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• Impropriety is the soul of wit.

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• It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy; an illusion of those who have lost it.

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• It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

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• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

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• It is only an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

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