Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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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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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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