We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. FORSTERGive, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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