The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. FORSTERBut 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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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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