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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

E. M. Forster

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Back Come May You
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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Attempt Can Difficult Easy Entice Only Relation
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Accustomed Advice Being Blame Grow One Praise Understand Unusual
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Become Believe Come Country Easier Less More People Person replace Shall
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Believe Individual People Teach Understand
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Kingdom Music World
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Depth Let Meaning Pull Sunlight Thought Understand Yourself
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Accomplishment Intention Judge Once Shall Told
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Died Grief Kind Plot Queen Story
We move between two darknesses.
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Between Darknesses Move Two
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Death Fact Fivem Birth Food Human Life Main Sleep
It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Choose Difficult Insult Ladylike Least Myself Right
My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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Admit Country Disbelieve Motto People Person Stand Temple Unbelief
… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Hill Shadow
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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Back Caught Cry Dammed Fell Flame Happen Hold Indignant Other Saw
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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Down Irritate Like Paper People Person Think Three Type

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