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.
E. M. FORSTERYou confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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 it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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