… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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We move between two darknesses.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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