You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTEROne always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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