School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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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