Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. FORSTERThe people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning 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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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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