It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
E. M. FORSTERThe main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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