One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTERI believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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