When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
E. M. FORSTERI believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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