One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
E. M. FORSTERIt is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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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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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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