“One does not miss what one has never had.”
“you're quite wrong there, Collie. One does miss sex. The body has a life of it's own. We do miss what we haven't had, you and I. Biologically. Ask Sigmund Freud. It is revealed in dreams. The absent touch of warm limbs at night, the absent”
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
“A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.”
“It seemed after all that one never really missed a thing. To be a human being one had to drink the cup. If one were lucky on one day, or cowardly on another, it was presented on a third occasion.”