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.
E. M. FORSTERThe sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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