The historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. FORSTERAdventures do occur, but not punctually.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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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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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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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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