… there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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