I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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 four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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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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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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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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