I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. FORSTERUnless we remember we cannot understand.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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