The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. FORSTERI would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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