You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTERSometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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 won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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 have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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