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W. Somerset Maugham
“He had talked of getting occupation of this sort so long that he had not the face to refuse outright, but the thought of doing anything filled him with panic. At last he declined the opportunity and breathed freely.

'It would have interfered with my work,' he told Philip.

'What work?' asked Philip brutally.

'My inner life,' he answered. ”
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“The day was drawing in the last of her colours, and as the softest violets and apricots bled away into the horizon, he was sad to have not arrived sooner. Mungo tilted his head back and walked in a circle. The sky above him was a darkening blue smeared with faint streaks of lemon. He hadn't known that the sky could hold so many hues - or he hadn't paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?”
Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

W. Somerset Maugham
“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw also that by reason of it he had acquired that power of introspection which had given him so much delight. Without it he would never have had his keen appreciation of beauty, his passion for art and literature, and his interest in the varied spectacle of life. […] Then he saw that normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everyone had some defect of body or of mind […] The only reasonable thing was to accept the good of men and be patient with their faults.”
W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham
“It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham
“Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...”
William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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