Hulan

“The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“It was difficult to understand that he would not come into the bungalow again and that when he got up in the morning she would not hear him take his bath in the Suchow tub. He was alive and now he was dead.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?"
"No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil