The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. FORSTERI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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