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.
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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