My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
E. M. FORSTERDo we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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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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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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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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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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