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.
E. M. FORSTERYou confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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