When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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