A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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