Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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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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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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