Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. FORSTERMy 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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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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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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