It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
E. M. FORSTERDo we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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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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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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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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