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.
E. M. FORSTER
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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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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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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