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. FORSTERMy 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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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