For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
E. M. FORSTERThere’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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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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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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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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