Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
E. M. FORSTERWhat 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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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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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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