It isn’t possible to love and to part.
E. M. FORSTERIt’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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