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William Somerset Maugham

The Magician

  • Арина Медведеваhas quoted8 years ago
    for good and all
  • iliasmshas quoted4 months ago
    can't believe that Margaret could have done such a thing,' she went on. 'The more I think of it, the more incredible it seems. I've known Margaret for years, and she was incapable of deceit. She was very kind-hearted. She was honest and truthful. In the first moment of horror, I was only indignant, but I don't want to think too badly of her. There is only one way to excuse her, and that is by supposing she acted under some strange compulsion.'
  • iliasmshas quoted4 months ago
    it related to less wonderful subjects, you would not hesitate to believe implicitly every word you read.
  • iliasmshas quoted4 months ago
    'We should look for knowledge where we may expect to find it, and why should a man be despised who goes in search of it? Those who remain at home may grow richer and live more comfortably than those who wander; but I desire neither to live comfortably nor to grow rich.'
  • iliasmshas quoted5 months ago
    recommend you to avoid him like the plague. He can be no one's friend. As an acquaintance he is treacherous and insincere; as an enemy, I can well imagine that he would be as merciless as he is unscrupulous.
  • iliasmshas quoted5 months ago
    might easily have got his blue
  • iliasmshas quoted5 months ago
    are the most matter-of-fact creature I have ever come across.'
  • iliasmshas quoted5 months ago
    I've never seen anyone with such a capacity for wretchedness as that man has. I don't think you can conceive how desperately he might suffer. Be very careful
  • iliasmshas quoted5 months ago
    'I cannot imagine that, however much I lived in Eastern countries, I could believe anything that had the whole weight of science against it. If there were a word of truth in anything Haddo says, we should be unable to form any reasonable theory of the universe.'
  • iliasmshas quoted5 months ago
    Silly ass!' answered Arthur with emphasis.
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