The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
E. M. FORSTERIt was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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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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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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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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