W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

All His Plans Were Suddenly Overthrown, And The Existence, So Elaborately Pictured, Was No More Than A Dream Which Would Never Be Realized. He Was Free Once More. Free! He Need Give Up None Of His Projects, And Life Still Was In His Hands For Him To Do What He Liked With. He Felt No Exhiliration, But Only Dismay. His Heart Sank. The Future Stretched Out Before Him In Desolate Emptiness. It Was As Though He Had Sailed For Many Years Over A Great Waste Of Waters, With Peril And Privation, And At Last Had Come Upon A Fair Haven, But As He Was About To Enter, Some Contrary Wind Had Arisen And Drove Him Out Again Into The Open Sea; And Because He Had Let His Mind Dwell On These Meads And Pleasant Woods Of The Land, The Vast Deserts Of The Ocean Filled Him With Anguish. He Could Not Confront Again The Loneliness And The Tempest.

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