For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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