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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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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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