More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

"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."
"One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her."
"Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'Didn't you mean them?'At the moment."
"Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither."
"If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers."