Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
E. M. FORSTERThe 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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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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