One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTERAziz 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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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She 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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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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