What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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