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.
E. M. FORSTERGive, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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