Английский язык с У. С. Моэмом. На окраине империи

We know that it will profit a man little if he gain the whole world and lose his soul. I think I have won mine."

I'd always been too busy before. And gradually all the life that had seemed so important to me began to seem rather trivial and vulgar. What is the use of all this hustle and this constant striving?

I began to think. I'd never had time to do that before. I began to read."