One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTERMistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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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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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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School 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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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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Have 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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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