If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. FORSTERWhen 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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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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