Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
E. M. FORSTERWhen I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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 four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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