The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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 are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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