The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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 the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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