The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
E. M. FORSTERThe main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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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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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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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.
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