If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. FORSTERHuman relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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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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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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