If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. FORSTERMy conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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 king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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