When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Sometimes 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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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