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. FORSTERHuman 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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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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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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