But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
E. M. FORSTEROnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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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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