If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. FORSTERPeople 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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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We move between two darknesses.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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