Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. FORSTERIt is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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 have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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