Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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