It isn’t possible to love and to part.
E. M. FORSTEROnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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