I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. FORSTERLove 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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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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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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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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