If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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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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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 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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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