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Источник: The Summing Up (1938), p. 285

Источник: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 41, p. 142

Источник: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 58, p. 213

The Trembling of a Leaf, ch. 4

Источник: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 42

The Razor's Edge (1943), p. 283

Источник: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 140.<!-- Doubleday Doran & Co. -->
Контексте: Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

The Razor's Edge (1943)
Контексте: Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

"1901", p. 67
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

Источник: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 51
Контексте: You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent.

The Razor's Edge (1943)

Источник: The Summing Up (1938), p. 306

"The judgement seat", p. 316
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'"The Treasure"
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p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)

Источник: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 44, p. 157

Источник: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 1, p. 8

Источник: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 70

Источник: The Summing Up (1938), p. 182