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.
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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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