Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
E. M. FORSTERFor 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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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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What 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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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