You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
E. M. FORSTERSometimes 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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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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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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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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