Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. FORSTERIt was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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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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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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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 four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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One 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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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