One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTERIt is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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