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.
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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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We move between two darknesses.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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