It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
E. M. FORSTERTo 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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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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People 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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