It isn’t possible to love and to part.
E. M. FORSTERBut the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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