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.
E. M. FORSTERLet 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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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