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.
E. M. FORSTERI can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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 distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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