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.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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