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.
E. M. FORSTERBut the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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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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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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.
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