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.
E. M. FORSTERThere is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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