I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
E. M. FORSTERThe people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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