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.
E. M. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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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.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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It 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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