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.
E. M. FORSTERYou told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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