It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERWe 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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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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