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" Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another. "
E. M. Forster
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" We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand. "
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" How can I know what I think till I see what I say? "
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" There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. "
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" Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. "
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" I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. "
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" Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. "
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" The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. "
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" Ideas are fatal to caste. "
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" The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. "
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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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" The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. "
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" The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. "
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" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "
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" Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! "
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" Love is always being given where it is not required. "
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" Nonsense and beauty have close connections. "
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" History develops, art stands still. "
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" No one is India. "
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" The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. "
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" Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. "
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" Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. "
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" I'm a holy man minus the holiness. "
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" If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. "
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My Friend
" The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. "
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" If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. "
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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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" America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. "
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" Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. "
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" Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. "
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