We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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