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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.

E. M. Forster

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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Comfort Desire Humanity Itself Over Reach
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Another Believe Conviction Gain Infinitely Moment Soul
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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Beyond Death Differ Live Nothing Nothingness Own People Shall
It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Love Part Possible
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Betraying Between Chosen Country Friend Gut Hope
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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Accept Alike Breed Culture Intelect Kingdom Music Reject
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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Choose Insult Lady Myself Protect Right Shield
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Death Fact Fivem Birth Food Human Life Main Sleep
Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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After Death Give Tend Thank You
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Back Come May You
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Behave Eternal Immortal Most People Respect Society
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Happen Happiness Nbox Turn
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Affair Force Great Greatest Indeed Love Private Public Thing Work
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Always Book Got Long One Overpraise Tend Though
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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Been Beggar Dep Done Given Good Hell Lofe Onion Went Wick
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Cloth Enterprise Mistrust Require
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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Beautiful Indelicate Most Notice People Same Thing Time Yet
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Become Believe Come Country Easier Less More People Person replace Shall
We move between two darknesses.
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Between Darknesses Move Two
Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Better Come Fail Last Proportion Resource Thing
The 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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Ago Country Destroy Grass Hundred Lane Man Network Object Poetry Reason Seek Sort Them Today Touch Year
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Evil Makem Goodness Readable Sense Writer
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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Art Believe Internal Material Object Only Opinion Order Posses Universe Work
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Feed Long Nothing Run Shape Some Spoon Teach
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Book Contain Discover Only Read Way
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Better Interest Our People Prsonmapssion
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Cast Follow Good Move Place Save Shadow Something Stand Thing

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