Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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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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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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