Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. FORSTERI believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Do 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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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