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. FORSTERIt 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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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