Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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 cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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