Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTERFor it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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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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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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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