Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. FORSTERMy conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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