Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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