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.
E. M. FORSTERDon’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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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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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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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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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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.
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