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.
E. M. FORSTERI believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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