It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. FORSTERIf 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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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 distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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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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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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