W. Somerset Maugham
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I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (2006). The Moon and Sixpence, p.84, Courier Corporation

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