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.
E. M. FORSTEROnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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