At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. FORSTERBut the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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