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.
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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