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’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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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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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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