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![ふたりのテーブル(1) [Futari no Table 1] by Rumi Ichinohe](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1499555604l/35625091._SY75_.jpg "ふたりのテーブル(1) [Futari no Table 1] by Rumi Ichinohe")
“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.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
“It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
“It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate with him that you could not imagine existence without him; then separation came, and everything went on in the same way, and the companion who had seemed essential proved unnecessary.”
― 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
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