Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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