There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
E. M. FORSTERThe four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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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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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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 main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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