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.
E. M. FORSTERDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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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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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’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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