It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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