I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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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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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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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