The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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