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"The Moon and Sixpence"

1. I always feel that asking for the approval of others for everything is perhaps the most ingrained nature of human civilization

2. It’s never too late to start dreaming. ---- Somerset Maugham

3. I don’t believe he can fall in love with anyone. Love is a kind of emotion, and compassion is its basic component, but he has no compassion for others or himself. ---- Maugham

4. Translation by Jason:

Sometimes I have thought of an isolated island, deep in the boundless sea. I can live in a deep valley on the island, surrounded by strange trees and silent. There, I think I'll find what I'm looking for. It is far away from the world of mortals and is alone in a corner, with a clear blue sky on top and lush green trees around it. The colors are ever-changing, the scents are fragrant and the air is cool and fresh.

I can't describe to you how silent the night here is. It is absolutely impossible to be completely still at night like here on my island in the Pomotu Archipelago. Countless animals make rustling sounds on the beach, various small crustaceans crawl around, and there are also the swishing sounds of earth crabs walking rapidly. Sometimes you hear the sound of fish jumping in the lagoon, and other times a brown shark scares all the other fish and makes the sea splash. But what transcends all of this is the low roar of breaking waves hitting the rocks, which is as endless as time. But here there is no sound at all, the air is full of night noise----Maugham

5. My behavior in Mrs. Strickland

I found some contradictions and felt puzzled. She was very unfortunate, but in order to arouse my sympathy, she also showed me her misfortune. She was obviously ready to cry, for she had plenty of handkerchiefs ready; and although I admired her foresight, in retrospect the moving power of her tears was diminished. I can’t tell whether she wants her husband back

because she loves him, or because she is afraid of other people’s comments; I also wonder if the pain of lovelorn that broke her heart is also mixed with vanity

The sadness of being hurt (which was a dirty thing to my young mind); this suspicion also made me very confused. I didn't

understand at that time how contradictory human nature is, how much artificiality there is in sincerity, how much despicability there is in nobility, or how much it can be found even in evil

virtue. ---- Maugham

6. He is as helpless as a mosquito caught in a spider's web. ---- Maugham

7. It is human nature to create myths. For those outstanding figures, if there are any surprising or puzzling events in their lives, people will eagerly grasp them, make up all kinds of myths, and believe them so deeply that they are almost fanatical. This can be said to be a protest of romanticism against the ordinary and bleak life. Some short stories in the legend become the hero's most reliable passport to the realm of immortality. It does not seem surprising that those who wrote about him had to make up for their poverty by resorting to an active imagination. Over a period of time, out of the deduction of this series of events, a myth emerged, which a wise historian would not hastily reject. ---- Maugham

8. Conversion can appear in different forms and can also be achieved through different ways. Some people go through catastrophic changes, like an angry torrent that smashes stones into powder at once; others, due to accumulation over time, are like constant drops of water, sooner or later the stones will be worn away. ---- Somerset Maugham

9. It is puzzling that civilized society consumes its own mind in this way and wastes its short life on boring entertainment. ---- Maugham

10. Each of us is lonely in the world----Maugham

11. Some people need drastic changes like rapids and gravel. Some people need gradients like water passing through stone. ---- Somerset Maugham

12. I think conscience is the guard of the soul. It guards the rules on which various societies rely for their survival. It is the police stationed in everyone's heart, supervising us not to do evil. It is a spy planted in the deepest recesses of self-awareness.

Man is too eager to be recognized by others and too afraid of being criticized by others, so he personally welcomes the enemy into his home; so the spy constantly monitors him, vigilantly defends the interests of his master, and ruthlessly destroys any clues that emerge. , unruly desires. Conscience compels him to put social interests above personal interests. ---- Maugham

I hope it can help you, thank you, and hope to adopt it.