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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Fond Life Make Mess Must One People Trust
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Brave Coward Hurtbrave People Rather
Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Distinguish Drama Learn Life Something
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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Back Come May You
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Feel Function Make Mean Right Small Way Wrong
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Choose Difficult Insult Ladylike Least Myself Right

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