The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. FORSTERThough life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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