Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
E. M. FORSTERThere are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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