Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
E. M. FORSTER
But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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