Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTERThe only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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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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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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