It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERLife is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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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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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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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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