It isn’t possible to love and to part.
E. M. FORSTERThink before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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