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.
E. M. FORSTERThe main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Don’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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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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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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