What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. FORSTERWhen you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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So 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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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