Status Updates From Of Human Bondage

“He considered with some irony the philosophy which he had developed for himself, for it had not been of much use to him in the conjuncture he had passed through; and he wondered whether thought really helped a man in any of the critical affairs of life: it seemed to him rather that he was swayed by some power alien to and yet within himself […]”

"She put her lips listlessly to the glass and drank two or three mouthfuls. Then in an exhausted whisper she asked him for a handkerchief. She dried her eyes. 'Of course I knew you never loved me as much as I loved you,' she moaned."

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"[S]he did not love him. It was no fault of hers; it was a fact that must be accepted like any other. Philip tried to reason with himself. [...] Then he made plans for the future, the same plans over and over again, interrupted by recollections of kisses on her soft pale cheek and by the sound of her voice with its trailing accent"