The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. FORSTERLet 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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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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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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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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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.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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