Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
E. M. FORSTERThe four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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