“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally in a way; but here--" He pointed with his pipe stem to his heart; and both smiled. "Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.”
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“But it was the stupidity of passion, which would rather have nothing than a little.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“Too late... everything's always too late.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit?”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
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