But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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 historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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She 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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