You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
E. M. FORSTERWe 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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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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 part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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