Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTERHave 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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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.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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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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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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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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.
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