Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. FORSTERWhat 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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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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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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 would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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