Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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