You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
E. M. FORSTERI won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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