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.
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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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