Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
E. M. FORSTERI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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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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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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