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.
E. M. FORSTERI would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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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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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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