Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTERWe move between two darknesses.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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 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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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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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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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