I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. FORSTERHuman 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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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