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I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

~ W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham Bondage Common Dreams Essential Happiness Human Maugham Misery

The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham English Literature Maugham Women

How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at each childish ailment, and the children clung to their parents with love and adoration; a few years passed, the children grew up, and persons not of their kin were more important to their happiness than father or mother. Indifference displaced the blind and instinctive love of the past. Their meetings were a source of boredom and irritation. Distracted once at the thought of a month's separation they were able now to look forward with equanimity to being parted for years.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham Children Maugham Parents

But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. Was that so depressing?Who knows? Maybe that was 'despair.' What Turgenev called 'disillusionment.' Or Dostoyevsky, 'hell.' Or Somerset Maugham, 'reality.' Whatever the label, I figured it was me.

~ Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Despair Disillusionment Dostoyevsky Hell Maugham Reality Self
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