We move between two darknesses.
E. M. FORSTERWe 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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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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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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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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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