Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
E. M. FORSTERI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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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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