It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
E. M. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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