Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. FORSTERAdventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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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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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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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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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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