I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. FORSTER
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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