Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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