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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.

E. M. Forster

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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Human Impossible Ral Relation Uncomfortable Unreal
It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Hurt Mean People
You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Confuse Important Impressive
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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Life Miniature Play Pretend School Time Trick Unhappiest World Worst
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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Barem Toom Bright Clean Country Floor Paint People Person Pleasant Tile Wake
Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Difficult Glorious Life Very
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.
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Become Believe Come Country Easier Less More People Person replace Shall
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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Around Blood Disturb Great Men Often Produce Uniformity
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Answer Life Love Made Moment Seldom Think Which World
Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Better Only Science Sympathy
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Appropriate Consider Give Life Movement never Us Want
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Body Deeper Inscrutable Secret Soul
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Know Say See Think What
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Gate Glorious Railway Terminal Unknown
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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Act Back Long Love People Really Run Some Sure Truth
There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Great Long Money never Risk

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