… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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