Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
E. M. FORSTERBut the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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 in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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