Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. FORSTERAziz 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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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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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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