Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
E. M. FORSTERI 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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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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 can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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