One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. FORSTERSchool was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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