But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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 you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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 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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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