I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
E. M. FORSTERSpoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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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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We move between two darknesses.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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