Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.

W. Somerset Maugham
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  2. Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay. - Jess C. Scott

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  4. Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes. - Jacob Nordby

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More Quotes By W. Somerset Maugham
  1. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

  2. 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 episode.

  3. As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

  4. He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

  5. If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

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