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.
E. M. FORSTERLife is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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