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.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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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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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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