Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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.
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
We move between two darknesses.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
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.
It isn't possible to love and to part.
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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