One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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