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. FORSTERCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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