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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist

Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.

W. Somerset Maugham
Fashion, Beach, Lying
W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

W. Somerset Maugham
Lying, Sometimes, Self Deception

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

W. Somerset Maugham
Truth, Lying, Telling The Truth
W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.26, Random House

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

W. Somerset Maugham
Lying, Book, Writing

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