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Somerset Maugham: Excerpts from "The Moon and Sixpence"

1. In order to make the soul peaceful, a person should do at least two things he dislikes every day.

2. This must be a portrayal of countless couples in the world. This kind of life style gives the beauty of family relationship. It reminds people of a calm stream, meandering through green pastures, shaded by thick shade, and finally merging into the vast sea; but the sea is so calm, always silent, and unmoving that you will suddenly feel troubled, Feeling inexplicably uneasy. Maybe, this is just my own weird thoughts that have been troubling my mind these days. I always feel that there is something wrong with how most people spend their lives. I recognize the social value of this kind of life, and I also see its orderly happiness, but there is a strong impulse in my blood for an unruly journey.

3. I didn’t understand at that time how contradictory human nature was; I didn’t know how much hypocrisy there was in sincerity, how much despicability there was in nobleness, or how much kindness there was in evil.

4. Why do you think beauty, the most precious thing in the world, is like pebbles on the beach, which a casual passerby can pick up casually? Beauty is wonderful and strange. Only through the torture of the soul can an artist create beauty from the chaos of the universe. And when beauty appears, it is not for everyone to recognize itself. To know it, you must repeat the same strange journey as the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and it takes wisdom, feeling, and a rich imagination to hear it again with your heart.

5. In our subconscious, we value our influence on others. It is important whether others value our opinion of them. If our opinion of them does not affect them, we will hate them. Him

6. I feel that some people are not born in their ideal place. Chance throws them into a certain environment by chance, but they are always full of nostalgia for their hometown in their hearts; they don't know where this hometown is. They are strangers in the place of their birth, and the tree-lined alleys they have known since childhood or the crowded streets where they have played are but stops on the journey of life. They seemed to be in a different place, unaccompanied and alone. Perhaps, it is this sense of strangeness that makes them travel far away from home to find their eternal home. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism brings these wanderers back to a land their ancestors left in ancient times. Sometimes, when a person comes to a certain place by chance, he will mysteriously feel that this is the place he has always wanted to live. This is the home he has been looking for, and he will settle down in this scene he has never seen before, among people he never knows, as if he was born to know it all. Here, he finally found his place.

7. God’s millstone turns slowly but grinds finely.