I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. FORSTERIf 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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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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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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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