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.
E. M. FORSTERBut the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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