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The Painted Veil quotes

W. Somerset Maugham

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“What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve for” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?” 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
“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“if nobody spoke unless he had something to say . . . the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“It was impossible that he did not love her still. Did you cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead....” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“one cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world, but the French, I think, have an attachment to their country which is almost a physical bond.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whisky and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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