There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
E. M. FORSTERWe move between two darknesses.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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