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.
E. M. FORSTERI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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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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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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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