One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTERMy conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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We move between two darknesses.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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