Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
E. M. FORSTERThe main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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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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