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.
E. M. FORSTERPeople have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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