I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. FORSTEROne 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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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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 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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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