One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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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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