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.
E. M. FORSTERAdventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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 won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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