I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTERCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I 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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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