The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
E. M. FORSTERThe four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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We move between two darknesses.
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