Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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