"The Shackles of Human Nature" is one of the masterpieces of British writer Maugham, and is known as a classic in the history of English literature. Through the description of the life experience of the protagonist Philip Carey, this book ** reflects the various flaws and contradictions in human nature, and reflects the true face of human life. Here are 20 classic quotes from this book that are meant to help readers better understand the themes and ideas of the book.
1.I finally discovered my mediocrity, but it was too late, and this is the cruelest thing.
2.He was too young to realize that the giver would have a stronger desire to reciprocate than the recipient.
3.There are two great joys in life: freedom of thought and freedom of action.
4.There is no beauty or ugliness in the world, there is only the truth. The pursuit of beauty is nothing more than emotion.
5.When one's mind is strong enough to override space and time, then it doesn't seem to matter whether one's life is clear or not.
6.Society has three sharp swords that are used specifically against people: the law, **, and the moral conscience in people's hearts.
7.In order to achieve his goal, even the devil will use any means to quote the words of the Bible.
8.There are two treasures in life, one is freedom of thought, and the other is freedom of action.
9.What will happen in the future, I don't think about it at all. If you think about today all day and worry about tomorrow, what is the meaning of life?It's just that things are so bad that they can't get any worse, and I think there's still a way out.
10.There is no greater torment in the world than love and contempt.
11.He didn't know that on the journey of life, he had to cross a large area of arid and barren wilderness with treacherous terrain in order to step into the living real world. The so-called "youth is more happy" is nothing but an illusion, an illusion of people whose youth has passed away.
12.Walking side by side between the two is a pleasure in itself.
13.He was impatient with life because he found himself unable to say what that vague impulse within him suggested. His intellect is not fit to express his spirit.
14.People have to pay the terrible price of disillusionment for the beautiful vision of the future when they were young.
15.There are only two things in the world that make our lives worthwhile, and that is love and art. I've always felt that you and I should see life as an adventure, and we should let the jewel-like flame burn in our breasts. To be a human being is to take risks, to go to the soup and fire, and to take risks.
16.It's useless to cry when you spill the milk, because all the forces in the universe are planning to spill the milk.
17.As you get older, you will find that in order to make the world a tolerable place to live, you must first acknowledge that human selfishness is inevitable.
18.He is cowardly and vain, so vain that you always have to be careful not to hurt his feelings. He confused his idleness with idealism, so much so that he himself could not distinguish between the two.
19.In fact, the beneficiary's gratitude is much weaker than the beneficiary's gratitude reciprocation.
20.I really don't see the use of reading the same thing all the time, it's just a kind of laziness that seems to be industrious.