"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
-E. M. Forster
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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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"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
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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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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
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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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