One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTER
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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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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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.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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