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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty, Morning, Silly
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty, Simple, Smell
W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion
W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.53, Courier Corporation

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty, Beautiful, Novelty
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty, Names, Ideals
W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

W. Somerset Maugham
Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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