W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

If I Cried Just Now In Church It Wasn't For The Reason That You Thought. I've Cried Enough For That, Heaven Knows, But Just Then It Was For Something Different. I Felt So Lonely. All Those People, They Have A Country, And In That Country, Homes; To-morrow They'll Spend Christmas Day Together, Father And Mother And Children; Some Of Them, Like You, Went Only To Hear The Music, And Some Have No Faith, But Just Then, All Of Them, They Were Joined Together By A Common Feeling; That Ceremony, Which They've Known All Their Lives, And Whose Meaning Is In Their Blood, Every Word Spoken, Every Action Of The Priests, Is Familiar To Them, And Even If They Don't Believe With Their Minds, The Awe, The Mystery, Is In Their Bones And They Believe With Their Hearts; It Is Part Of The Recollections Of Their Childhood, The Gardens They Played In, The Countryside, The Streets Of The Towns. It Binds Them Together, It Makes Them One, And Some Deep Instinct Tells Them That They Belong To One Another.

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