We move between two darknesses.
E. M. FORSTERCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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