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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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.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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