You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
E. M. FORSTEROne must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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