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.
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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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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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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