One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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