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.
E. M. FORSTEROne always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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