The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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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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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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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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