It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. FORSTERThe main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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