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.
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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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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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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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