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.
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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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 can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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