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.
E. M. FORSTERBut 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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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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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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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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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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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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