If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. FORSTERThe main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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