"I can only guess that it made the……" — W. Somerset Maugham

"I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall."

— W. Somerset Maugham

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