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.
E. M. FORSTERMy conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in 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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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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