Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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