I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. FORSTERI 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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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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