There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

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Love Relationships

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Philip Carey

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Source

Of Human Bondage

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 71.

Current Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 71.

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Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me.

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Zora Neale Hurston
Source
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 14.

Another quote from 1915

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Source
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 51.

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