I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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 kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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