How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an epis… - William Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. ... They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.