Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. FORSTERHuman 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.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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We 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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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