I had obtained some distinction, and felt myself of some importance, before the desire of distinction and of importance had grown into a passion: and little as it was which I had attained, yet having been attained too early, like all pleasures enjoyed too soon, it had made me blasé and indifferent to the pursuit. Thus neither selfish nor unselfish pleasures were pleasures to me. And there seemed no power in nature sufficient to begin the formation of my character anew, and create in a mind now irretrievably analytic, fresh associations of pleasure with any of the objects of human desire.


Autobiography (1873)

John Stuart Mill Quotes

I had obtained some distinction, and felt myself of some importance, before the desire of distinction and of importance had grown into a passion: and ...

I had obtained some distinction, and felt myself of some importance, before the desire of distinction and of importance had grown into a passion: and ...

I had obtained some distinction, and felt myself of some importance, before the desire of distinction and of importance had grown into a passion: and ...

I had obtained some distinction, and felt myself of some importance, before the desire of distinction and of importance had grown into a passion: and ...