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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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We move between two darknesses.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Understand Unless Remember
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Fond Life Make Mess Must One People Trust
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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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