You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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