The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. FORSTERSo I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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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 cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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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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