We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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 distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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