Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTERI cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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