Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
E. M. FORSTERThough life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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