The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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