I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
E. M. FORSTERI 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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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