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.
E. M. FORSTERI can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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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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