The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. FORSTERThe historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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