“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
“Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
“The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
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