I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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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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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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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Works 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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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