Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. FORSTERThe people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Money pads the edges of things.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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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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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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