One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
E. M. FORSTERBut 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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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 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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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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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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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