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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

E. M. Forster

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Know Say See Think What
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Down Irritate Like Paper People Person Think Three Type
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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Died Grief Kind Plot Queen Story
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.
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Away Certainty Country Men People Person Run Shall
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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Comfort Desire Humanity Itself Over Reach
It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Barrier Cut Difference Fence Fully Make Other Ourselves Whether
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Aristocracy Chaos Cruelty Human Permanent Represent Sensitive Tradition True Ver Victory
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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Beautiful Embankment Fastening Hill Opposite Pinch Pleasant Road Tree Unfamiliar Wide
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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Attempt Can Difficult Easy Entice Only Relation
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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Beautiful Indelicate Most Notice People Same Thing Time Yet
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Cloth Enterprise Mistrust Require
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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Alone Been Believe Curiously Intimate Ourselves Radiate Serious Something Thing Watch
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Belief Characteristics Curiosity Food Good Human Humanism Mind Race Taste
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Death Fact Fivem Birth Food Human Life Main Sleep
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Brave Coward Hurtbrave People Rather
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Death Destroy Idea Man Save

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