The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not please forever . It is delightful to plunge into cold water on a hot day even though in a moment your skin is no longer sensitive to the coldness . White is no whiter if it lasts ...
... pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not please forever . It is delightful to plunge into cold water on a hot day even though in a moment your skin is no longer sensitive to the coldness . White is no whiter if it lasts ...
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... pleasures , which , though dif- ferent , are not less than the pleasures of youth . The philosophers have always told us that we are the slaves of our passions , and is it so small a thing to be liberated from their sway ? The fool's ...
... pleasures , which , though dif- ferent , are not less than the pleasures of youth . The philosophers have always told us that we are the slaves of our passions , and is it so small a thing to be liberated from their sway ? The fool's ...
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... pleasure , however spiritual that pleasure may be , it is of no great consequence or at least of no more consequence than a dozen oysters and a pint of Montrachet . If it is a solace , that is well enough ; the world is full of ...
... pleasure , however spiritual that pleasure may be , it is of no great consequence or at least of no more consequence than a dozen oysters and a pint of Montrachet . If it is a solace , that is well enough ; the world is full of ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth