One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
E. M. FORSTERI 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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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