Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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 have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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