Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
E. M. FORSTERI can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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