Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. FORSTERMost 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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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