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.
E. M. FORSTERIf 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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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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