I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. FORSTERTo 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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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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