People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. FORSTERHave 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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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We move between two darknesses.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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