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.
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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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 only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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