For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
E. M. FORSTERFaith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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