… there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. FORSTERMy conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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