I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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