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.
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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 historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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