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"Between any two lovers there is always one who loves, and one who lets themself be loved. It is the one who loves, that always gets hurt."
This quote from Mrs. Craddock (I've rendered it as best I can from the original French) sums the book up well. The theme of unrequited love, or less-requited love at least, is also central to Maugham's superb Of Human Bondage (in fact, I believe a character in that book says it as well, only in English).
While Mrs. Craddock is definitely not up to the snuff of ...more
This quote from Mrs. Craddock (I've rendered it as best I can from the original French) sums the book up well. The theme of unrequited love, or less-requited love at least, is also central to Maugham's superb Of Human Bondage (in fact, I believe a character in that book says it as well, only in English).
While Mrs. Craddock is definitely not up to the snuff of ...more
"There is an abyss between that no power can cross, a strange barrier more insuperable than a mountain of fire. Husband and wife know nothing of one another. However ardently they love, however intimate their union, they are never one; they are scarcely more to one another than strangers."
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I am continuing my exploration of S W Maugham work... and learning a lot from the master.
This story had a lot for me to absorb. Wish I had read this 20 or 30 years back, it would have helped me become a much better person. It may be too late now, but still it helps to know where I went wrong...
This story had a lot for me to absorb. Wish I had read this 20 or 30 years back, it would have helped me become a much better person. It may be too late now, but still it helps to know where I went wrong...
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