It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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