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W. Somerset Maugham
“Why d’you read then?”
“Partly for pleasure, and because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if I don’t smoke, and partly to know myself. When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me; I’ve got out of the book all that’s any use to me, and I can’t get anything more if I read it a dozen times. You see, it seems to me, one’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there are certain things that have a peculiar significance for one, and they open a petal; and the petals open one by one and at last the flower is there.”
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham
“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward to an ecstatic happiness; but this was not happiness; it was a hunger of the soul, it was a painful yearning, it was a bitter anguish, he had never known before.”
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham
“Why did you look at the sunset?'
Philip answered with his mouth full:
Because I was happy.”
W. Somerset 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
“He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.”
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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