She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
E. M. FORSTERLet 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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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