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.
E. M. FORSTERSchool 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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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