Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
E. M. FORSTER
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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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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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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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But 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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