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.
E. M. FORSTERWhen you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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