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Quotation from The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
“The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard.”
The Razor's Edge, Epigraph (from the Katha Upanishad) (Doubleday, Doran / Heinemann, 1944)
Maugham's epigraph supplies the title and frames Larry's spiritual search as a difficult path.
Citation: "The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard." — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, Epigraph (from the Katha Upanishad) (Doubleday, Doran / Heinemann, 1944). (id the-razors-edge-q1)
Portrait: Somerset Maugham (1934), Carl Van Vechten, Public domain.
