It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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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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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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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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