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.
E. M. FORSTERAdventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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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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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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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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