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.
E. M. FORSTERWe 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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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