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W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Ashenden, in Cakes and Ale, ch. 11 (1930)
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