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.
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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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