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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.

E. M. Forster

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Alone Been Believe Curiously Intimate Ourselves Radiate Serious Something Thing Watch
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Accomplishment Intention Judge Once Shall Told
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Death Destroy Idea Man Save
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Book Down Farther Gone Got Influence Little Only Ourselves Particular Read
Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Better Only Science Sympathy
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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Attempt Can Difficult Easy Entice Only Relation
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Daily Enter Good Live Star Sunrise Tree Wind
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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Died Grief Kind Plot Queen Story
Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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Aziz Being Express Heart Man Many Mine Slowly Way Wink
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Adventure Occur Punctually
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Go Instrument Learn Life Long Must Performance Public Violin
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Cloth Enterprise Mistrust Require
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Ignore Middle never Out Pull Transmute
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Belief Characteristics Curiosity Food Good Human Humanism Mind Race Taste
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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Cast Follow Good Move Place Save Shadow Something Stand Thing
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Know Say See Think What

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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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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