“She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!” MenWomen Book:The Trembling of a Leaf Source: The Trembling of a Leaf
“One’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there are certain things that have a peculiar significance for one, and they open a petal; and the petals open one by one; and at last the flower is there.” SpiritualReadingLiteratureBooksFlowerSelf AwarenessSelf DevelopmentBudEdificationPetal Book:Of Human Bondage Source: Of Human Bondage
“He was very tall, very thin, very fair. He wore a very high collar and very long hair, and held himself like an exhausted lily.” Humour Book:The Magician Source: The Magician
“...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.” Self AwarenessFinding YourselfFinding One S PathThe Moon And Sixpence Author:William Somerset Maugham
“Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea.” The Painted Veil Author:William Somerset Maugham
“Ho idea che la sola cosa che ci permette di guardare senza disgusto il mondo in cui viviamo sia la bellezza che gli uomini di tanto in tanto creano dal caos. I quadri che dipingono, la musica che compongono, i libri che scrivono, la vita che vivono. Fra tutte, la cosa più ricca di bellezza è una vita bella. È questa l'opera d'arte più perfetta.” BellezzaRealtàVita Umana Book:The Painted Veil Source: The Painted Veil