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.
E. M. FORSTERI cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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