Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
E. M. FORSTERIt’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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