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W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham Quotes: Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
         

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.


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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
         



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