What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. FORSTERDo 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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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