The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. FORSTERA poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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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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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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