I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

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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.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham

I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham