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. FORSTERI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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