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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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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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My 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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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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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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