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Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
— E. M. Forster
Nature pulls one way and human nature another.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.
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She thought him invertebrate and conventional.
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Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.
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While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.
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Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.
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The true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
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But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.
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How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?
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and Imperialism always had been one of her difficulties.
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Kindly answer my question. Am I late?
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He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them.
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Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.
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To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
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Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness.
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She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.
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The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three. - E. M. Forster
— Ransom Riggs
I will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure.
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The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.
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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
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Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.
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How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
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Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.
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It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.
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The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.
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A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
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Do you remember Italy?
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It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.
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He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.
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Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy.
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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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The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
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Everything must be like something, so what is this ike?
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I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
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... there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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No one is India.
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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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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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Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy.
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
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I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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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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Premonitions are not preparation. She
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Travel was a species of warfare.
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A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood - a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved.
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You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.
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The Machine stops.""What do you say?"
"The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."
She burst into a peal of laugher. — E. M. Forster
Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
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But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.
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It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
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Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
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How can it be expressed in anything but itself?
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She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
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One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.
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mulcted of his presents, but they were given
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