The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. FORSTERThere 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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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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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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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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