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.
E. M. FORSTERMost of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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