I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
E. M. FORSTERThough life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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