You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTERLife is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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