I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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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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