Human beings with feelings

"People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with conventional design - but as he strolled about the courts at night and saw through the windows some men singing and others arguing and others at their books, there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own. He had never lived frankly." (E.M.Forster: Maurice)