We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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