It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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We move between two darknesses.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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