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. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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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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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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We move between two darknesses.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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