W. Somerset Maugham said this quote

“ It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded... ”

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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.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

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

~ W. Somerset Maugham

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.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

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

~ W. Somerset Maugham