Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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It 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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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