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.
E. M. FORSTERSpoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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