There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.


p. 38. Maugham says something similar in The Summing up, Ch 22: "Love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species" - A Writer's Notebook (1946)

W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.