But 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.
E. M. FORSTERIt is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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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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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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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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