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 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. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
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It's seems that William was not a gardener...because the smell of roses can be a lot of things : powerfull, sweet, subtle, intense,obsessive,pungent,enchanting,ordinary, exhilarating , etc, etc. ;-)
Dans la vie faut pas s'en faire - Moi je ne m'en fais pas
Toutes ces petites misères - Seront passagères
Tout ça s'arrangera - Je n'ai pas un caractère - A me faire du tracas
Croyez-moi sur terre -Faut jamais s'en faire - Moi je ne m'en fais pas
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No, actually, the smell is still the smell regardless of emotions it might trigger in you. It goes like the saying: "It is what it is".
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These so called "simple" functions of daily life, no matter how apparent they seem, have a lot to them that we often don't understand so I don't like his it is what it is and lets just get on with it.
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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. Alot of people hunger for physical attractiveness. That is true, nothing to be said about it. It is a perfume that bring you to some senses. You can smell it and that is all, that is true because it is only physical feelings and not what is within your soul.  
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tchensa wrote:It's seems that William was not a gardener...because the smell of roses can be a lot of things : powerfull, sweet, subtle, intense,obsessive,pungent,enchanting,ordinary, exhilarating , etc, etc. ;-) I think you're getting the smell of a rose mised up with WOMEN, Dude! ...he he he he......
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While many may agree on the definition of hunger, few will agree on what beauty is. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and as such I have to categorize this as a delusion, because even a lunatic thinks he is right.
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Maugham was a bit of a cynic. He also said that “love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.” However he managed to use his dower outlook on life to his advantage when he wrote “Of Human Bondage” as it was magnificent.
"He who never made a mistake never made a discovery." Samuel Smiles
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i think Willy Maugham put it nicely; but Keats' :
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" is non-pareil....
"To see a world in a grain of sand And a Heaven in a wild flower..." ~William Blake
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Daemon wrote: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 I think this sentiment was more simply stated by the J. Geils Band: Love stinks! Everbody sing! (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah
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I think people are missing the point. Author is trying to espouse a point of beauty from a particular angle, from among many many angles, artistically, not a last word on what beauty is. No body has the last word on it. I think the author's perception on beauty is interesting.
As for Geeman's love that it stinks, there's another angle. It's probably from some one who was told what love is from a psychologically sick individual who probably exudes a selfish deception and called it love. From that angle, it certainly stinks. But it became that way when seen through the psychologically sick tinted glasses. Love on the other side of the tinted glass is an umblemished beauty!
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correction...Love on the other side of the tinted glass is an unblemished beauty!
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Then, perhaps, it can be inferred that Mr. Maugham was speaking of that ever subjective beauty which, when beheld, comes with such force, that it arrests our words.
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If beauty come accompanied by wits, then the power of those who possess it are limitless.
look into my eyeballs, there thy beauty lies, then why not lips on lips since eyes on eyes? William Shakespeare
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