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.
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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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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