I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTER
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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