Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
E. M. FORSTERMistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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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.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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