How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERI cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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 you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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