“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Source: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 13
“Eternity last longest.”
As quoted in Kurt Schwitters Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery, by Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Princeton Architectural Press, 1 Apr 2000, p. 75, note 69
1920s
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