Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTERGive, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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