How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERThe armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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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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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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