I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. FORSTERAdventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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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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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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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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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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