School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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