When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
E. M. FORSTERAt night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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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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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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