Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. FORSTERThe final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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