Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. FORSTERI won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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The 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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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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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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