I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. FORSTERI believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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 think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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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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