You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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 sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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