W. Somerset Maugham Quote
To Lucy it was an admirable study, the contrast between the man who threw his whole soul into a certain aim, which he pursued with a savage intensity, knowing that the end was a dreadful, lonely death; and the man who was making up his mind deliberately to gather what was beautiful in life, and to cultivate its graces as though it were a flower garden.And the worst of it is that it will all be the same in a hundred years, said Dick. We shall both be forgotten long before then, you with your strenuousness, and I with my folly.And what conclusion do you draw from that? asked Mrs. Crowley.Only that the psychological moment has arrived for a whisky and soda.
W. Somerset Maugham
To Lucy it was an admirable study, the contrast between the man who threw his whole soul into a certain aim, which he pursued with a savage intensity, knowing that the end was a dreadful, lonely death; and the man who was making up his mind deliberately to gather what was beautiful in life, and to cultivate its graces as though it were a flower garden.And the worst of it is that it will all be the same in a hundred years, said Dick. We shall both be forgotten long before then, you with your strenuousness, and I with my folly.And what conclusion do you draw from that? asked Mrs. Crowley.Only that the psychological moment has arrived for a whisky and soda.