But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. FORSTERThere is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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