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.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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