Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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You 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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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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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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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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