I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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