What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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