One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTERLet 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.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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