We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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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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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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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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We move between two darknesses.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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