Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mou... - W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
"Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy."
"Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy."
"Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant."
"Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it."
"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."
"Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment."
"I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."