W. Somerset Maugham on Love
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“The tragedy of love is indifference.”
“But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
“He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.”