Hulan

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

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

“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

“It was strange that Walter with all his cleverness should have so little sense of proportion. Because he had dressed a doll in gorgeous robes and set her in a sanctuary to worship her, and then discovered that the doll was filled with sawdust he could neither forgive himself nor her. His soul was lacerated. It was all make-believe that he had lived on, and when the truth shattered it he thought reality itself was shattered. It was true enough, he would not forgive her because he could not forgive himself.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil