One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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 only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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When 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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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