My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
E. M. FORSTERThe people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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