One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. FORSTERWe move between two darknesses.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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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 historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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