One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTERBut 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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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We 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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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