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.
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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