It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERMy conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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I 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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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