“When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.”
Work
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, <i>The Moon and Sixpence</i> is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.
Quotes
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W. Somerset Maugham
Canonical work source
“When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.”
“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous st...”
“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”
“It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.”
“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”