Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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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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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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