If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. FORSTERBooks have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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 won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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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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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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