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.
E. M. FORSTERIt was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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