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. FORSTERThe main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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 historian records, but the novelist creates.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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