It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
E. M. FORSTERI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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 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 sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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