What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. FORSTEROne 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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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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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