We 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.
E. M. FORSTERI would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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