It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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