Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. FORSTERShe had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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We move between two darknesses.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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