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.
E. M. FORSTERI believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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