The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. FORSTERSchool was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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