It isn’t possible to love and to part.
E. M. FORSTERWorks of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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