There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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We move between two darknesses.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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 a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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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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