Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTERShe 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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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When 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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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