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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, 10 Monate, 1 Tag oder 55.092 Tage alt.

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

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

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• It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides.

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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

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• Love is a dirty trick played upon us to achieve the continuation of the species.

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• Love is what happens to a man and a woman who don't know each other.

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• Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

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• Music is queer. Its power seems unrelated to the other affections of man, so that a person who is elsewhere perfectly commonplace may have for it an extreme and delicate sensitiveness.

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• Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less the pleasures of youth.

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• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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• People are always rather bored with their parents. That's human nature.

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• People ask for your criticism, but they only want your praise.

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• People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

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• Perfection - Nothing more than a complete adaptation to the environment; but the environment is constantly changing, so perfection can never be more than transitory.

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• Poor Henry [James], he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far away for him to hear what the countess is saying.

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• Stay where you feel happy. Happiness is a piece of furniture which is risky to transport.

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• The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

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• The audience is not the least important actor in the play, and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

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• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

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• The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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• The life force is vigourous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men.

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