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.
E. M. FORSTERWhen 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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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 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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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