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.
E. M. FORSTERCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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