The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. FORSTERShe stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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