Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTERHuman relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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