For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
E. M. FORSTEROnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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 won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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