It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E. M. FORSTER
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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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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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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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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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