You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTERTo make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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