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.
E. M. FORSTERAt night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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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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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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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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