My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
E. M. FORSTERWhat 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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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.
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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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We move between two darknesses.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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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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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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