Human Bondage Quotes
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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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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.
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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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 ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
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From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
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Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
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