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.
E. M. FORSTERI 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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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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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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